Biography of Harvey BloodOrleans County, NY Biographies

Blood, Harvey, who for many years was well known to the older residents of the northern part of Orleans county
as a minister of the gospel, and later as practicing physician, was a native of Conway, Mass., born about 1804.
Coming to this State he located at Broadalbin, where he taught school several years, then moved to Whitesboro and
Hamilton, at the latter attending Colgate Academy. He afterward engaged in missionary work in Western New York
under the direction of the Home Mission Board, and in connection with his labors he came to Carlton in 1825. Here
he bought land and built a house, and although he was afterward stationed at various other places, Carlton was
considered the home of Mr. Blood and family. As the result of bard and constant ministerial work, his voice failed,
and he was compelled to change his avocation. He read medicine in Gaines, and was graduated from a medical institution
at Willoughby, Ohio. Dr. Blood practiced in Carlton and Yates about ten years, until the time of his death, July
27, 1864. He married Eliza Cooley, and to them one child was born, Adoniram Judson, who settled in Missouri and
died there in 1892. After the death of his wife, Mr. Blood married Gracilla, daughter of Anthony Miles, a pioneer
of the town. The children of this marriage were: Francis Wayland, Cornelia Ann and Francis W. (all of whom died
young), and Harvey, jr., of Albion. The latter was born in Carlton, April 12, 1843, where he was brought up on
the farm and educated in the old Yates and Albion academies. At sixteen Harvey began working for himself, and before
he was twenty one he owned a farm. Mr. Blood has always been a farmer, and is now interested in that pursuit, both
in this country and in the west. April 12, 1864, he married Mary J. Huff; of Carlton, by whom he had two children,
Della Wayland and Clayton Converse, both of Albion. Mr. Harvey Blood, jr., is a Republican and has held office
as highway commissioner six years, and supervisor two years. Anthony Miles was one of the pioneers of this region,
and was one of the famous "seven bachelors" who made the first improvements in Carlton. He was a native
of England, but came to this region from Stockbridge, Mass. He drove an ox team from Massachusetts to Avon, thence
came on foot to Oak Orchard on the lake. During the War of 1812, Mr. Miles was in service; was at Lundy's Lane
and the burning of Buffalo. After building his log house, Mr. Miles went east and brought his family to the settlement.
He then had three children: Mary Ann, who married Jerry Clark; Gracilla, who married Harvey Blood, and Henry O.,
now living in Oarlton. Two children were afterward born in Carlton, viz.: Priscilla, second wife of Jerry Clark,
and EdLnund, who died in infancy. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Miles married Jane Brown, and by her had
five children: Sarah, who married George Miller; Edwin, of Carlton; Mary Ann, who married John Norris; Edmund and
Cynthia, of Carlton; Victoria, who married William Sutton. Anthony Miles died in Carlton in 1883, being in his
ninety ninth year.